I submitted some questions for the new question game and they have been approved by the editors 3 weeks ago. However, they have yet to appear in the new question game yet. I remember it used to be 2 weeks a couple of years ago when an approved question appeared in the new question game. How long does that take to happen nowadays and why the increase in the delay?

It's around 6-8 weeks waiting time now. It's just simply due to less people playing the game I think. Questions take longer to get the required number of plays so it takes longer until it needs to pull a new question in.

When the game first started it was run multiple times per day, so it was quite quick getting questions through

He meekly comes back after noticing that his questions are indeed in the mix, in his defence said defendant was checking every week after he submitted them, to see them still sitting there and got a bit peeved.

Can anyone enlighten me as to why the popularity of the New question game is down nowadays? It's a frustratingly long wait for the new questions to get filtered through and kind of discourages you to write further questions until the pending ones have got their run.

The game is continually being tweaked to get the ideal times based on how many questions have been submitted and placed into the pot to be played. Of course, the less questions, the more we need to spread out. We do have quite a few questions right now, but ultimately it comes down to Terry checking the rates and needs before anything can go faster/slower.

I have both been playing the game more recently, and writing more questions (due to Daily Challenges that want me to do so). Today I was surprised to get three questions that were exactly the same (not duplicates, the same questions) as in yesterday's quiz. I didn't think that was supposed to happen, was it?